Can periodontitis be treated only with non-surgical root planing?
Some early forms of gum disease (gingivitis) are more receptive to non-surgical root planing. However, even in those cases that will need gum surgery, the amount and invasiveness of surgery can be reduced by first having thorough non-surgical root planing done. We do see on occaision that patients have had root planing done with the general dentist and that some benefits have definitely been achieved. However, sometimes, the patients have not been advised that there are still residual problems which require some surgery to totally eliminate the gum infection that remains after the root planing was done. 6. Can I spread gum disease to my family? It has been shown that gum disease transmission does occur between spouses or between a parent and child. However, there is more of a tendency for this to occur if all of the parties do not have a good resistance to gum disease. You can not transmit gum disease to another person on food utensils or toothbrushes. If both spouses have aggressive g
